On the 20th we headed off to meet up with Chris Bailey and family who emigrated to Aussie 3 years ago (We both worked with Chris in the NHS).? They live just north of Brisbane in a lovely house.? We had a great dinner - Nita did us a sunday roast we were very happy On the 21st the new pool was being installed at the house so we caught up on a few things and planned the next part of the travels.? We did however fit time in to go and have a look at a number of show...

On the 14th we awoke at 4.30am as our plane landed in Cairns first!!!� Little did we know that the Sake we had bought as presents had to be poured away because it was over 100ml!!!� We werent told we had to go through security in Cairns - we were not happy chappies.� Anyway we arrived in Brisbane on time and headed off on the train down to Jacqui's Aunty Kath and Uncle Rob's.� Aunty Kath met us at the station an...

On the 10th May we headed back to Tokyo.� We had to go and get our flight tickets paid for and picked up.� Well what a pain that was!!!!� We had to wait for over an hour to pick up the tickets and head out of our way to do it!� We were not best pleased as Jacqui was told it was a case of pick up and pay.� So we headed off to look around the area and found a little play going on in a temple which was interesti...

On the 9th May we headed off on the train to Osaka.  We were undecided whether to go to Nara for the day or head off to Universal Studio's.  The train we caught took us to Universal so we dumped our bags in lockers and headed off for a day of rides   We did Back to the future, Backdraft, Spiderman twice, ET, Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park three times.  We had a ball - especially as the rides where all in Japanese!!  Jacqui went to Universal in F...

On the 8th we caught another train to Kurashiki - a small town with a beautiful old area.  We went for a walk around the old district after checking in to our hotel.  Interesting little hotel with bunk beds in a room we didn't have room to swing a cat   We thought the area would be like Takayama but the buildings where on teh canal and very nice.  That afternoon we headed off to Komija and went to look in a bridge museum which was very funny.  It w...